Cheney: Death only option for some detainees if Gitmo closed

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Source: Washington Times

Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday that the only alternative to holding some suspected terrorists indefinitely would be to execute them, saying that was an argument against the Obama administration's plans to close the Guantanamo detainee prison.

"If you're going to be engaged in a world conflict such as we are, such as the global war on terrorism, if you don't have a place where you can hold these people, your only other option is to kill them," Mr. Cheney said.

"And we don't operate that way."

SNIP...

The former vice president said that the Guantanamo Bay prison is "a fine facility" and that the White House will have a "very difficult" time closing it, because of the legal, political and diplomatic challenges associated with indefinite detention.



Read more: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/01/cheney-death-option-detainees-guantanamo-closed/

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I'd laugh if it weren't for the uncounted million-plus dead from Cheney and Bush's illegal and immoral wars.